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Podcast: Tourism Geographies Podcast
Episode: Decommodifying nature through commoning: an alternative for tourism and private protected areas
Description: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14616688.2024.2446355AbstractToday’s multiple crises call for alternative approaches to tourism and nature contemplation. Neoliberal conservation proposes the commodification of nature as a solution to these crises, for instance, through tourism development in private protected areas (PPA). PPAs combine privatisation with the commodification of nature for tourism, illustrating neoliberal conservation. Critics of neoliberal conservation question these practices, claiming that they foster inequality, enclosure, and people’s alienation from nature, leading to displacement. Alternatively, post-capitalist convivial conservation strives to overcome the human-nature dichotomy entrenched in market-based instruments of m...